Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2003. / Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 28, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Washington State University, May 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 28, 2009). "Department of Fine Arts."

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2009. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Education. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 412-476). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR32050

Th.--Litt. fr.--Paris 3, 1988.

Sammandrag Internationell forskning har visat på en stor geografisk och kulturell spridning av tystnadskulturer och ett genomslag inom hart när alla samhällssektorer. En tystnadskultur innebär att en enskild har kännedom om information som behöver uppmärksammas och ageras på, men denne avstår från att föra kunskapen vidare till de som kan agera på den av rädsla för att ett sådant handlande kan få negativa återverkningar på den enskilde själv. Detta kan medföra att nödvändiga åtgärder inte sätts in i tid vilket i sin tur kan leda till förluster av allt ifrån ekonomiska värden till människoliv. För den enskilde blir följden stress då denne pressas mellan att göra vad som uppfattas som rätt och rädslan för de konsekvenser som antas bli följden. Inom svensk forskning är tystnadskulturer ett närmast oskrivet blad. Två avhandlingar har gjorts men ingen av dessa berör tystnadskulturer i samband med projektarbete. Uppsatser inom ämnet saknas helt. Detta arbete har gjorts för att studera vissa grundläggande förutsättningar. Finns det tystnadskulturer inom svenskt projektarbete och vilka följder kan dessa då få? För att nå svar har vi låtit en rad erfarna projektledare besvara en enkät och denna har sedan följts upp med djupintervjuer av utvalda respondenter. Resultatet pekar tydligt på att det även inom svenskt projektarbete förekommer tystnadskulturer och att dessa, om än mindre tydligt, kan få följder i form av kostnader och skador i linje med vad som visats i internationell forskning. / Abstract International research has shown that employee/organizational silence is culturally and geographically widely spread and has an impact on virtually every part of our society. Employee/organizational silence is when an individual has knowledge of information that needs to be acted upon but he/she refrains from passing it on to those in a position to act due to fear of adverse repercussions should he/she choose to do so. This entails that necessary measures will not be administered in time which may lead to anything between financial losses to the loss of human lives. This will result in stress for the individual pressed between a wish to do what is considered right and the fear of the consequences that is assumed to follow. In Swedish research hardly anything has been done on employee/organizational silence. Two theses have been written on the subject. No essays are registered. This work has been done to study some basic conditions. Is there employee/organizational silence in Swedish project work and if so what are the consequences? To be able to answer these questions we have made an inquiry among a group of experienced Swedish project managers and the inquiry has then been followed by in depth interviews with a select group of respondents. The result shows clearly that employee/organizational silence exists in Swedish project work and that it, although less clearly, comes with the same range of losses as shown by international research.

This work seeks to explore the unmeasurable qualities of architecture that enrich the architectural experience, with a focus on the roles of light, sound, and memory as they interact with architecture in the making of that experience. / Master of Architecture

This paper presents a discussion of functional silence in contemporary classical music with a particular focus on the music of Salvatore Sciarrino and Jürg Frey, two composers whose drastically-contrasting bodies of work both occupy the interstitial space between the audible and inaudible. To begin, I address three main questions: what are the functions of silence in a musical context, how do the characteristics of a work affect our perception of these silences, and how do these functions relate to our perception of music on the edge of silence. In answering these first two questions, I discuss three categories of silence---temporal, spatial, and gestural---which I use in a silence-centric analyses of Sciarrino's Let me die before I wake, Allegoria della notte, and Infinito Nero, as well as Frey's Streichquarttet III. To further apply these concepts to music on the edge of silence, I provide a fourth category---timbral silence---which describes the perception of absence or silence within the presence of sound and allows for the application of existing functional principles of silence to sounding events. In turn, this allows us to understand the music of Sciarrino and Frey in terms of timbral completion and timbral dissolution, respectively. Having established a theoretical framework for understanding the function of silence, the second half of this paper discusses the composition of A Moment on the In-between, my 2018 work for string quartet, with a focus on the intentional application of these principles of functional silence within the piece.

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